Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Dublin City University
17. Gëzim Visoka and John Doyle (2018), ‘The Promise and Future of Neo-Functional Peace: A Reply to Bergmann and Niemann’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 56(2): 439-455. Julian Bergmann and Arne Niemann claim that ‘neo-functional peace’ was insufficiently conceptualised and empirically unsubstantiated. They draw on the original neo-functionalist literature to propose a logic of spill-over to […]
3. Gëzim Visoka (2018), Acting Like a State: Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood, London: Routledge. How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo’s diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and securing […]
5. Gëzim Visoka (2017), ‘Norbert Elias and Statebuilding After Violent Conflict’, in Tatiana S. Landini and Francois Depelteau (eds), Norbert Elias and Violence, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-182. This chapter explores the complementarity between Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology of violence and post-conflict statebuilding studies. Sociology has played a formative role in peace and conflict studies. However, […]
4. Gëzim Visoka (2017), ‘After Hybridity’, in Nicolas Lemay-Hébert and Rosa Freedman (eds.), Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development, London: Routledge, pp. 301-324. This chapter provides a more nuanced examination of the merits and drawbacks of hybridity in the context of peace and conflict studies and offers new research avenues for addressing some of the fallacies and […]
16. Nicolas Lemay-Hébert and Gëzim Visoka (2017), ‘Normal Peace: A New Strategic Narrative of Intervention’, Politics and Governance, 5(3): 146-156. International actors have used multiple discursive frameworks for justifying interventions, from human security to the responsibility to protect, and, most recently, resilience-building. We argue that, the language of normalization, hidden behind these narratives of interventions, has […]
15. Gëzim Visoka and Oliver P. Richmond (2017), ‘After Liberal Peace? From Failed Statebuilding to an Emancipatory Peace in Kosovo’, International Studies Perspectives, 18(1): 110-129. Attempts to build a liberal peace and a concurrent neoliberal state in Kosovo have not managed to produce a sustainable and emancipatory peace. Instead, they have produced a local and negative […]
2. Gëzim Visoka (2017), Shaping Peace in Kosovo: The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood,Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book offers a critical account of the international missions in Kosovo and traces […]
Gëzim Visoka (2017), Assessing the potential impact of the Kosovo Specialist Court, Utrecht, NL: PAX and Impunity Watch. This policy study presents a comprehensive assessment of the potentially profound positive societal effects of the Court’s work, as well as the risks that work poses to intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic relations and political stability in Kosovo. It recommends a […]
3. Gëzim Visoka (2016), ‘Peace Multitudes: Liberal Peace, Local Agency, and Peace Formation in Kosovo’, in Oliver P. Richmond and Sandra Pogodda (eds), Post-Liberal Peace Transitions, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 65-82. This chapter examines the pitfalls of liberal peace in Kosovo, traces different forms and examples of local critical agency, and highlights complex processes of […]
14. Elvin Gjevori and Gëzim Visoka (2016), ‘Albanian Peacekeepers: Exploring the Inward-looking Utility of International Peacekeeping’, International Peacekeeping, 23(4): 513-539. This article provides the first comprehensive account of Albania’s contribution to international peacekeeping and explores its inward-looking rationales for providing peacekeepers. Specifically, we examine why Albania has energetically supported NATO- and EU-led military and crisis management […]